News Digest
GERMANY WANTS TO HEAD AFGHAN FORCE
By empty (9/24/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Germany's Defence Minister, Peter Struck, has proposed that his country, together with the Netherlands, take over leadership of the international security forces in Afghanistan. Mr Struck made the offer in Poland at a Nato conference. First it was the British, then the Turks and next it seems it might be Germany and the Netherlands.TURKMENISTAN, UZBEKISTAN TO PROMOTE CROSS-BORDER TRADE
By empty (9/24/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During a telephone conversation on 23 September, Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov and his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov agreed to establish border markets at customs posts between Dashoguz and Khorezm oblasts in order to promote cross-border trade, turkmenistan.ru reported the following day. Turkmenistan will offer for sale oil products, while Uzbekistan will supply textiles, shoes, rice, fruits, and vegetables.KARABAKH PREMIER REQUESTS INCREASE IN ECONOMIC AID FROM ARMENIA
By empty (9/24/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Kocharian met on 23 September with Arkadii Ghukasian and Anushavan Danielian, the president and prime minister of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, to discuss the socioeconomic situation in the enclave. Danielian told RFE/RL's Armenian Service that he believes Armenia should increase its annual financial assistance to Karabakh from 9 billion drams ($16.07 million) to 12 billion drams given that Stepanakert does not impose either customs duties or VAT on goods imported from Armenia.OBSERVERS TO PANKISI
By empty (9/23/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking at a news conference in Madrid, Sergei Ivanov confirmed on 23 September that Russia has been invited by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to send unarmed military observers to the Pankisi Gorge. However, Ivanov said the invitation is not enough to assuage Russian concerns. "Our cooperation with Georgia can be reduced to a simple formula: how, when, and where to neutralize and destroy terrorists," Ivanov was quoted as saying.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.